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Jay Barrett/KMXT The city of Kodiak has a new librarian. Kathleen Baxter has been offered the job that became vacant after long-time librarian Joe D’Elia retired this summer. In a release, City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said Baxter was chosen from a field of eight applicants. No specific details about Baxter’s experience or background, or where she’s from was included in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Coast Guard high-endurance cutter Munro returned to its Kodiak homeport over the weekend, wrapping up 80-plus days of patrol in the North Pacific Ocean. While at sea the Munro worked with the Chinese Fisheries Law Enforcement Command, the Japanese Coast Guard and the Russian Federal Security Service on joint patrols and even engaged in cultural exchanges between …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Yesterday KMXT told you about the first two items on the Kodiak Island Borough’s state legislative capital improvement projects priority list. The borough assembly narrowed the eight-item list from a pool of 16 projects during its work session on Thursday, with the help of Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman and Borough lobbyist Mark Hickey. Third on the CIP list …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Mid September is a good time of year for Kodiak anglers. Up until then fishermen are often crowded in and alone the shorelines of road system rivers, unable to fish above the highways that bisect them. But yesterday things spread out a little when the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened up the rivers and creeks above …

Jay Barrett/KMXT As we wait for the state ferry Tustumena to return to service, the Alaska Marine Highway System has announced a change to the ferry Kennicott’s September and October schedule. The system has added additional sailings between Kodiak and the Kenai Peninsula communities of Seldovia and Homer through October 17th. However there remains only one sailing to Unalaska with …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Another good weekend – mostly – for Kodiak High School athletes. Save for a drubbing on the gridiron, the Bears saw victories in cross country, volleyball and swimming. Cross country In cross country, Levi Thomet once again dominated the field while running away with the win in the Frank Dieckgraeff Invitational in Seward. He ran the five kilometer …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly narrowed down its state legislative capital improvement projects priority list for the 2014 legislative session. With the help of Borough Lobbyist Mark Hickey and Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman, the assembly got a realistic idea of the state’s budget this year, and narrowed the 16 potential projects down to eight. First on …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last night the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly got its first taste of what the budget climate might be during the legislative session this year. During the work session the assembly spent a good chunk of time reviewing potential options for its state legislative capital improvement projects priority list, and heard from Borough Lobbyist Mark Hickey about what the …